Newsmax Rising Bestsellers – Week of March 28, 2022

The Newsmax Rising Bestsellers list will do more than stimulate your mind. These reads may challenge your beliefs, broaden your perspectives, excite your curiosities, or widen your imagination.

These books may not necessarily appear on the official New York Times list of bestsellers, but they're the ones our Newsmax audience is reading, talking about, sharing with friends, and buying.

Here are the Newsmax Rising Bestsellers for the week of March 28, 2022:

1. “American Reboot: An Idealist's Guide to Getting Big Things Done’’ by Will Hurd (Simon & Schuster) Hurd, a former Republican congressman and CIA officer who Politico has called “the future of the GOP,” believes the American political system must reboot by adopting the “timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values.’’ He identifies “five seismic problems’’: the Republican Party’s failure to present a principled vision for the future; the lack of honest leadership in Washington, D.C.; income inequality that threatens the livelihood of millions of Americans; U.S. economic and military dominance that is no longer guaranteed; and how technological change in the next 30 years will make the advancements of the last 30 years look trivial. Hurd outlines how the Republican party can “look like America by appealing to the middle, not the edges.’’ (Nonfiction)

2. “The Worst Military Leaders in History’’ edited by John M. Jennings and Chuck Steele (Reaktion Books Limited) The authors, both history professors at the U.S Air Force Academy, asked 15 distinguished historians to name their choices for the worst military commanders in history. Among their rogues' gallery of military incompetents: George Custer of “Custer’s Last Stand’’ infamy, war criminal Baron Roman F. von Ungern-Sternberg and Franz Xaver Josef Conrad von Hötzendorf, head of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Navy. (Nonfiction)

3. “What Happened to the Bennetts’’ by Lisa Scottoline (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) The latest work from prolific mystery novelist Scottoline is a nail-biter. Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a successful court-reporting business — until one night, his life takes a horrific turn with armed drug-traffickers launching an unprovoked attack on his family. Forced to enter a witness protection program, the Bennetts’ lives begin falling apart at the seams, propelling Jason to take matters into his own hands go after the gang. (Fiction)

4. “The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters” by Juliette Kayyem  (PublicAffairs) The author, a crisis management expert and lecturer in public policy at Harvard, says we live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. She lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters by highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and the forward thinking we need to harness. It’s no longer about preventing a disaster from occurring, but learning how minimize the consequences when it does, Kayyem writes. (Nonfiction)

5. “The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER’’ by Thomas Fisher (One World) This tale tells a year in the life of Dr. Thomas Fisher, an emergency room doctor on Chicago’s South Side where the pandemic and unending violence on the streets have his staff straining to keep up. Fisher brings us through his shift, as he works with limited time and resources to treat incoming patients — and then goes home, haunted by what he’s seen throughout his day: The brutal wait times, the disconnect between hospital executives and policymakers – and the people they're supposed to serve, and the inaccessible solutions that could help his patients. He calls for an overhaul of the system. (Nonfiction)